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Featured in Explorations 96 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, performed by the London Sinfonietta, the following are reviews of the performance:
"Karen Markham's The Wheel Has Turned, inspired by Islamic cosmogony, forms a sharp contrast. While Spinu is comparatively monochrome in anguish, Markham is complex in affirmation of spiritual joy, producing a perpetuum mobile of great rhythmic subtlety, eloquently melodic, densely beautiful" (Guardian, 25th January 1996, Tim Ashley).
"Karen Markham's The Wheel Has Turned was impressive on a technical level. Scored for 10 players, the inspiration came from A Mystical Journey, a children's book by a Sufi writer." (Financial Times, 29th January 1996, Adrian Jack).
"Karen Markham, who contributed a memorable piece called Whirligig at a previous Sinfonietta presentation, pursued the rotation theme once again, to excellent effect, in the Wheel Has Turned. This time the oscillation was less hectic, but it provided a unifying motivic principle that complemented the underlying theme of a spiritual quest." (Barry Millington, The Times, 25th January 1996).